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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Trochee
Tone
Audience
Analogy
2. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Catharsis
Spondee
Foil
Voice
3. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.
Aubade
Iamb
Structure
Literal Language
4. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Meter
Situational Irony
Legend
Folklore
5. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Reversal
Motif
Subplot
Apostrophe
6. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Aside
Trochee
Allusion
External Conflict
7. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Reversal
Point of View
Rising Action
Subject
8. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Antagonist
Personification
Convention
1st Person
9. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Theme
Voice
Sestina
Epic
10. The selection of words in a literary work.
Diction
Sestina
Narrative Poem
Folklore
11. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Trochee
Analogy
Stanza
Tone
12. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Complication
Character
Folklore
Denouement
13. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Sonnet
Hyperbole
Elision
Symbol
14. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
3rd Person (Limited)
Tone
Style
Aubade
15. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
3rd Person (Limited)
Parody
Diction
Paradox
16. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.
3rd Person (Limited)
Literal Language
Convention
Ballad
17. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Internal Conflict
Epiphany
Protagonist
Closed Form
18. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Falling Meter
Verbal Irony
Conflict
Paradox
19. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Aubade
Myth
Ode
20. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Structure
Internal Conflict
Epiphany
Catharsis
21. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Free Verse
Anapest
Narrator
Fiction
22. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Foot
Literal Language
Dialect
Elegy
23. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Parallelism
Dialogue
Connotation
Rhyme
24. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Epic
Climax
Free Verse
External Conflict
25. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Apostrophe
Point of View
Exposition
Allusion
26. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Exposition
Metaphor
Motif
Act
27. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Paradox
Aubade
Sestet
Foil
28. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Figurative Language
Flashback
Rhythm
Pyrrhic
29. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Aside
Comic Relief
Catharsis
Elision
30. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Protagonist
Figurative Language
Solioquy
Elegy
31. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Symbolism
Motif
Spondee
Synecdoche
32. A three-line stanza.
Tercet
Voice
Legend
Situational Irony
33. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Solioquy
Convention
Aubade
Stereotype
34. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Elegy
Dialogue
Parable
Synecdoche
35. A four line stanza in a poem.
Metaphor
Pyrrhic
Epiphany
Quatrain
36. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Sestet
Stereotype
Subject
Quatrain
37. A short saying with a moral.
Allusion
Aphorism
Blank Verse
Sestet
38. The main character of a literary work.
Paradox
Metaphor
Protagonist
Villanelle
39. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Exposition
Tercet
Motif
Metonymy
40. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Subject
Metonymy
Rhythm
3rd Person (Omniscient)
41. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Diction
Mood
Personification
Denouement
42. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Free Verse
Allegory
Characterization
Parallelism
43. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Denotation
Image
Parody
Imagery
44. Broken down acts.
Theme
Comic Relief
Scenes
Nonfiction
45. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Allegory
Folklore
Plot
Sestina
46. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Trochee
Internal Conflict
Anapest
Analogy
47. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Aubade
Narrator
Foot
Fiction
48. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
1st Person
Free Verse
Villanelle
Diction
49. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Elegy
Falling Action
Situational Irony
Dactyl
50. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Symbol
Alliteration
Metonymy
Metaphor